Re: Charset policy - Post Munich

[Misha Wolf <misha.wolf@reuters.com>]

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A couple of minor comments:

>     (Note: ISO 10646 calls the UTF-8 CES a "Transfer Format" rather
>     than a "character encoding scheme", but it fits the charset report
>     definition of a character encoding scheme).

As I'm on the road (actually at the Eleventh International Unicode 
Conference), I don't have access to the ISO 10646 amendments.  I think 
that ISO 10646 calls UTF-8 a "Transformation Format", not a "Transfer 
Format".  Can anyone check this?  RFC 2130 contains many incorrect 
definitions including those of ASCII (!) and of UTF; please let's not 
add to them.

>     Note also that a language is distinct from a POSIX locale; a POSIX
>     locale identifies a set of cultural conventions, which may imply a
>     language (the POSIX or "C" locale of course do not), while a
>     language tag as described in RFC 1766 identifies only a language.

Would it be helpful to add quotes round the instance of POSIX inside the 
brackets?  The third line of the above para would become:

      language (the "POSIX" or "C" locale of course do not), while a

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